Hacker News Way Back Machine

• The Google black hole: What happens to startups when they're bought by Google? · 103 points · by gabrielroth · 55 comments
• Colorful programs for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows · 91 points · by alex_c · 22 comments
• Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene (video) · 51 points · by joshwa · 10 comments
• Should I give up? · 49 points · by anaphoric · 47 comments
• Y Combinator’s Demo Day Summer 2008 · 44 points · by jaydub · 19 comments
• Physicists spooked by faster-than-light information transfer · 41 points · by bk · 51 comments
• Why Safe Kids Are Becoming Fat Kids · 40 points · by pg · 51 comments
• TicketStumbler.com (YC Summer 08): a new way to find tickets · 35 points · by fallentimes · 43 comments
• Living the freelance life while keeping your sanity · 34 points · by danw · 3 comments
• Indie Game Developer Finds Success On Xbox 360 -- Est. $825K Sales In First Week · 34 points · by vascoos01 · 15 comments
• How the Large Hadron Collider proton beam is turned off · 34 points · by mhb · 15 comments
• Hello World! AppJet Opens Browser-Based JavaScript School · 33 points · by rokhayakebe · 7 comments
• China's children buckling under the pressure of their parents' deferred dreams · 33 points · by crocus · 26 comments
• Co2Stats (YC summer 08) compensates for your site pollution · 33 points · by rokhayakebe · 18 comments
• Einstein versus Peer Review... · 29 points · by DaniFong · 7 comments
• Secrets of the JavaScript Ninjas · 29 points · by sant0sk1 · 9 comments
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy · 28 points · by orib · 32 comments
• The Y Combinator, or How to Succeed at Recursion Without Really Recursing · 27 points · by edw519 · 18 comments
• Yelp 'pay to play' pitch makes shops scream for help · 26 points · by alex_c · 7 comments
• Well, we're profitable, time to scale... · 24 points · by wmeredith · 18 comments
• Adobe Screwed By EcmaScript Standards Agreement · 24 points · by soundsop · 11 comments
• RIAA pays Tanya Andersen $107,951 · 20 points · by raju · 11 comments
• YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1 · 18 points · by IsaacSchlueter · 3 comments
• Anyvite (YC Summer 08) in the Boston Thrillist · 18 points · by drm237 · 5 comments
• The Surprising Effect of Distance on Download Speed · 18 points · by ajbatac · 18 comments
• AppStore Developer TapTapTap Publishes Sales Figures · 17 points · by qhoxie · 2 comments
• Talking To Pirates · 15 points · by alex_c · 3 comments
• The Coming Battle Over Web Fonts · 15 points · by edw519 · no comments
• The Best JavaScript Library · 15 points · by eibrahim · 2 comments
• Twitter SMS shutdown explained · 15 points · by mno · 6 comments
• Microsoft Research develops yet another 3D photo viewer (new video, watch till the end) · 14 points · by hhm · no comments
• Diving deep into Amazon Web Services · 14 points · by nick5768 · 1 comment
• Erlang and High-Scale System Software · 12 points · by prakash · 2 comments
• Get Started With Firebug, Firefox's 'Killer App' for Web Developers · 12 points · by edw519 · 2 comments
• Michael Phelps, the billion dollar man? · 12 points · by pavel · 10 comments
• Aging, Evolution and the "developmental drift" · 12 points · by mariorz · 7 comments
• CAPTCHAs work—for digitizing old, damaged texts, manuscripts · 12 points · by nickb · 3 comments
• Is Google's Organic Growth Topping Out? Chris Sacca talks · 11 points · by babul · no comments
• Science Visuals: The Genetic Map of Europe · 10 points · by robg · 2 comments
• Low-Tech Camera Uses No-Tech Gravity to Drop Viewers Into the Pool · 10 points · by bentoner · 3 comments
• ECMAScript Harmony · 10 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Thrown to the Ad-Wolves... or, Learn from My AdWords Mistakes · 10 points · by prakash · 2 comments
• Guy Films Space Shuttle Launch from Passing Airliner · 10 points · by timr · 3 comments
• Ask HN: why do some non-trollish articles get [dead]ed? · 10 points · by mariorz · 12 comments
• Goodbye Web 2.0... Welcome Cloud Computing · 8 points · by nreece · 9 comments
• Jim Gray from '06: Distributed Computing Economics (how to allocate computing resources) · 8 points · by wmorein · 2 comments
• Twitter kills international SMS notifications · 7 points · by swombat · 1 comment
• File sharing becomes a crime without punishment in Germany · 7 points · by swombat · no comments
• The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Premature Standardization · 7 points · by drewr · no comments
• Derek Sivers: Reversible business models · 6 points · by toffer · no comments
• Y Combinator Challenge #18 - The WebOS · 6 points · by dkasper · 2 comments
• Big Companies Are Where Small Companies Go to Die · 6 points · by superchink · 2 comments
• Is Geek Tech Going Mainstream? · 6 points · by alex_c · 1 comment
• Using Google App Engine With Amazon Web Services · 5 points · by dhotson · no comments
• What do the freaking tech bloggers want? · 5 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• History of 404 Error Code · 5 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Google search gaining share over Microsoft and Yahoo over the last 18 months · 5 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Federal Appeals Court Upholds Copyright Protection for Free Software · 5 points · by timr · no comments
• 12 Unit Testing Tips for Software Engineers · 5 points · by terpua · no comments
• The Intangibles · 5 points · by mooders · no comments
• The Golden Goose Called SMS · 5 points · by buckpost · 2 comments
• Everyday Uses of Psychology · 5 points · by qhoxie · 3 comments
• How to Participate in the Linux Community · 5 points · by hhm · no comments
• Sorry, investors: the online video pie just shrank by 65% · 5 points · by mlearmonth · no comments
• Google-backed SeedFund injects $1 million into Lifeblob · 5 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Twitter kills SMS service in some countries over costs. Will someone kill SMS already? · 4 points · by qhoxie · 5 comments
• HitMeLater: A Snooze Button For Your Email · 4 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• How to think faster, better on your feet · 4 points · by raju · no comments
• Keep It Simple: PhrazIt Offers 30 Character Long Reviews · 4 points · by terpua · no comments
• Use our Angel Funding Convertible Note Template · 4 points · by dcancel · no comments
• Sharing 2999 Songs, 199 Movies Becomes ‘Safe’ in Germany · 4 points · by prakash · no comments
• Ask YC: Resources for learning about revenue models? · 4 points · by aichcon · 3 comments
• Resartus: A Social Revision Engine · 4 points · by byrneseyeview · no comments
• Geeking with Greg: Stories about Amazon's Early Days · 4 points · by aliasaria · no comments
• Living Things · 4 points · by DaniFong · 1 comment
• Alexa RIP 1996-2008 · 4 points · by transburgh · no comments
• ASP.NET Gets No Respect · 4 points · by johns · 6 comments
• MS should dump Windows in favor of a Unix-based windowing shell · 4 points · by snydeq · 3 comments
• Wuala Launches Social Grid Storage In Public Beta Tomorrow · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Women (online) have attracted the attention of venture capitalists. · 3 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Why Norwegian is the easiest language for English speakers to learn · 3 points · by tjr · 2 comments
• Intel PCs to wakeup for VOIP calls · 3 points · by omfut · no comments
• Django on Jython: It's here · 3 points · by soundsop · no comments
• How to use Zorn’s lemma · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• IPhone 3G Glitches May Be Due to Bugs in Infineon Chip · 3 points · by timr · no comments
• Getting real: From idea to implementation · 3 points · by saad0105050 · 2 comments
• 3G iPhone has engineering defect · 3 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Bigger does not mean faster · 3 points · by raganwald · 2 comments
• Gary V: Better than Zero · 3 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Emacs tip: How to edit multiple files on several directories in less than a minute · 3 points · by gabrielsaldana · no comments
• Startup Stages: Idea to Revenue · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• HN: feedback on my "find places to play sports" site (sportsity.com) · 3 points · by jeremytliles · 2 comments
• Will Horizontal Layouts Return? · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• 10 Practical Uses For Psychological Research in Everyday Life · 3 points · by hhm · no comments
• A Barely Accessible System · 3 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Intellectual Property Ruling Could Validate Open Licenses · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Testing vs. Type Systems · 3 points · by silentbicycle · no comments
• Social Network Marketing - The Wave of the Future - Video · 2 points · by marthasvineyard · no comments
• Court: violating copyleft = copyright infringement · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• The Military Wants to Control Your Mind · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• The Language Squint Test · 2 points · by maxwell · 2 comments
• BoxOffice returns to the App Store · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• USB 3.0 now available · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Google Still Dreaming Of $50 Billion Mobile Ad Market · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• A Brief Reverse-Chronological YouTube History of Apple · 2 points · by technologizer · no comments
• How To Install Django On Mandriva 2008.1 (Apache2/mod_python) · 2 points · by joschi · no comments
• Priming for Burning Man, Flames in Hand · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Open Development and the Flow of Spice · 2 points · by raganwald · 1 comment
• Math Poetically Solved Now = Free Time for Me · 2 points · by sallywu · 1 comment
• How To Get Programming Books for Free · 2 points · by MattGeri · no comments
• Temporary Becomes Permanent · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Facial Frontier: What Your Face Reveals about You · 2 points · by crocus · no comments
• Null · 2 points · by dhotson · 1 comment
• Twitter stream of Chinese journalist nabbed by security · 2 points · by caveman82 · 1 comment
• Photosynth is still a work in progress. It is dazzling, but what is it for? · 2 points · by hhm · no comments
• Google: Massive Spike in Email Virus Attacks in July · 2 points · by timr · no comments
• Outsourcing does not suck. Our understanding of it does · 2 points · by dnene · 1 comment
• Solar power breakthrough: 20% cheaper, on sale within 18 months · 2 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Twitter blog: Twitter shuts off SMS updates for most countries · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Data Mining to Detect Pump-and-Dump Scams · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• How does web advertising work? How effective is ad serving technology? · 2 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• Identi.ca Will Succeed Because Its Technology is Viral · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Class action lawsuit filed against Facebook · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious · 2 points · by wallflower · no comments
• YUI 3: The goals are lighter, faster, consistent, power, secure · 2 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• The "Colbert Bump" is real—at least on one side of the aisle · 2 points · by pavel · no comments
• Become an Inventor · 2 points · by jonallanharper · 1 comment
• Packaging gone crazy · 2 points · by geuis · 1 comment
• Design-based Web Applications Development - The Essential New Paradigm · 2 points · by mariorz · 2 comments
• Real time real time raytraced Rome on cell processors · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• MediaSixDegrees targets ads using social graph information, raises $9 million · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• What Apple gets about Design · 2 points · by pcc · no comments
• The Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate: when titanic minds clash · 2 points · by henning · no comments
• Engineering Windows 7 · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Netflix may lose $1.8M to $3.6M in revenue per day over outage · 2 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• Videos on YC's demo day? · 2 points · by amrithk · no comments
• McCain unveils his own tech policy proposal · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Stupid Practices That Hinder Market Adoption · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Apple Now bigger than Google (Market Cap) · 1 points · by rokhayakebe · no comments
• Use Social Networking for Market Research - Video · 1 points · by marthasvineyard · no comments
• Turn Your iPhone into a Barcode Scanner with ScanLife’s App · 1 points · by qhoxie · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Looking for tool that adds links to Wordpress from Firefox · 1 points · by matt1 · 2 comments
• Freebase Parallax Taunts Us With Awesome Semantic Web Video · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Google Now Allows You to Pick Your Friends in Reader · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Olympic doping detection flawed? · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Facebook says Focus · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• GUIDs are Great · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• The 34 Women That Won The Nobel Prize · 1 points · by sah · 2 comments
• 10 weird social networks. · 1 points · by rokhayakebe · 1 comment
• Design & Computation · 1 points · by dhotson · no comments
• There's only one Mac laptop keyboard · 1 points · by delconte · no comments
• Device Creates Energy, Fuel, and Usable Compost from Trash · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Lessons from a Bigfoot Traffic Spike · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Fast-growing social network hi5 makes key hires, especially on the business side · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Twitter cuts UK SMS - there goes another business model · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Everything you wanted to know about being a Linux kernel dev (but were afraid to ask) · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Search for the latest products in electronic and digital world · 1 points · by paulleviss · no comments
• Terms of VC endearment - Forget the valuation, what’s the deal? (TC Guest Piece) · 1 points · by wheels · no comments
• SOA Security: Chain reactions are bad, mmmkay? · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Y Combinator Goes Open-Source With Legal Funding Documents · 1 points · by bbuderi · no comments
• Financing for develeping country tech SMEs. · 1 points · by netcan · no comments
• What Makes for a Successful Protocol? · 1 points · by chmike · no comments
• The Darker Side Of iPhone App Development · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Linux Desktops Dressed Up As Macs · 1 points · by dhimes · no comments
• Yahoo knows where you are · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Google App Engine blocked in China. · 1 points · by ptm · no comments
• How The World Spends Its Money · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• University of Toronto, IBM to launch supercomputer · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Facebook has overtaken MySpace · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Scientists unveil fastest RAM · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Wikipedia founder aims to break Google stranglehold · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• The Urban Ninja - A synergetic low wind kite project · 1 points · by dhotson · no comments
• Marijuana vending machines in California · 1 points · by mhb · no comments
• Ask HN: Movable Type or Wordpress for personal blog? · 1 points · by ScottWhigham · 4 comments
• Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja: A sneak peak · 1 points · by noodle · no comments
• Building Static Websites with Webby · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Valleywag, Monitor110 and Telling It Straight · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• TCP-Planet: A Reliable Transport Protocol for InterPlanetary Internet · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• Bionic Humans: Top 10 technologies · 1 points · by hsuresh · no comments
• OMG A VPN can secure connections into cloud computing hosted services · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Is Your Son a Computer Hacker? · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• Does the Thrill of the Chase Make PR Obsolete? · 1 points · by timr · no comments
• Sivers/Ferriss interview that will make you think · 1 points · by terpua · 2 comments
• Shark vs Octopus · 1 points · by Alex3917 · 1 comment
• Facebook faces class-action suit over Beacon · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Guess which country searches the most for "email account?" · 1 points · by awt · no comments
• GM shows 2 pics of production Volt, GM share is up almost 13% today · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Implement Text-Overflow:ellipsis on IE, Firefox, and Opera 9 · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Traffic over Britain from space · 1 points · by ranparas · no comments
• COBOL thwarts California's Governator · 1 points · by mati · 1 comment
• Has Facebook given up on its non-iphone app sites? · 1 points · by rmalik · 1 comment
• Siano raises $17.5M for mobile TV chips · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• More musical chairs: Facebook’s Benjamin Ling returns to Google · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• BeginUp.com - Digg meets YC News · 1 points · by transburgh · 2 comments
• Using CAPTCHA to transcribe books · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Accounting and Budgeting Tools · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Response to "The Surprising Effect of Distance on Download Speed" · 1 points · by pcc · no comments
• Surfing the HyperNet -Will There be a Quantum Computer in Your Future · 1 points · by caseykazan · no comments
• Designing games with a purpose" by Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• Personalized Homepage Industry: Netvibes vs. Pageflakes · 1 points · by robertjmiller · no comments
• Empowering the software auteurs · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Better T9 Predictive Typing · 1 points · by trickjarrett · no comments
• How Web Technology is Boosting Productivity in Organizations · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• IBM, University of Toronto To Build Canada's Most Powerful Supercomputer · 1 points · by noor420 · no comments
• Social Ad Networks: Win, Lose, or Draw? · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• The big payback. Selling your soul..er your company to the MAN · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• Ben Ling Lands (Back) at Google-This Time, at YouTube · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• An Army of Ones and Zeroes · 1 points · by bootload · 3 comments
• Supercomputer to explore mass of the universe · 1 points · by fiaz · no comments